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<blockquote data-quote="Diehard Hunter" data-source="post: 3154750" data-attributes="member: 5843"><p>This is nothing new. Farmers, wildlife biologists, and even pet owners have known for many years that a sudden change in diet can be detrimental to an animal. </p><p></p><p>In ruminants, the intestinal Flora is adapted to the diet they are consuming. The different species of organisms are adapted to the specific plants the animal eats. Each microbe specializes in a specific plant or plant part. If that plant is suddenly removed from the diet, and stays out of the diet long enough, those microbes die. If the animal then switches back to that plant, it is much less efficient at breaking it down, and could be expending more energy consuming it than it will get from it. </p><p></p><p>So, Yes, I can see exactly where the author is coming from. If you change the abundance of key organisms in the gut flora of these ruminants, you can cause slow starvation. Just like if you ate celery exclusively. Your stomach would be full, but you lack the intestinal flora to digest it, so you too would starve.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Herbivores are adapted to the plant species in their area. That is why they have limited ranges. That range may be very large, but it is limited. </p><p> </p><p>Here are a few articles you and look over.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Bcsa8Z4u-E4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA15&dq=effect+of+changing+diet+on+gut+flora+in+ruminants&ots=NqpGvx62Jy&sig=_aP3q-irm4wBM5ypzLRhZcNCqtg#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr= ... &q&f=false</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/2276/CallieWalker2009.pdf?sequence=1#page=14" target="_blank">http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstrea ... =1#page=14</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ajas.info/Editor/manuscript/upload/15_125.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ajas.info/Editor/manuscript/ ... 15_125.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diehard Hunter, post: 3154750, member: 5843"] This is nothing new. Farmers, wildlife biologists, and even pet owners have known for many years that a sudden change in diet can be detrimental to an animal. In ruminants, the intestinal Flora is adapted to the diet they are consuming. The different species of organisms are adapted to the specific plants the animal eats. Each microbe specializes in a specific plant or plant part. If that plant is suddenly removed from the diet, and stays out of the diet long enough, those microbes die. If the animal then switches back to that plant, it is much less efficient at breaking it down, and could be expending more energy consuming it than it will get from it. So, Yes, I can see exactly where the author is coming from. If you change the abundance of key organisms in the gut flora of these ruminants, you can cause slow starvation. Just like if you ate celery exclusively. Your stomach would be full, but you lack the intestinal flora to digest it, so you too would starve. Herbivores are adapted to the plant species in their area. That is why they have limited ranges. That range may be very large, but it is limited. Here are a few articles you and look over. [url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Bcsa8Z4u-E4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA15&dq=effect+of+changing+diet+on+gut+flora+in+ruminants&ots=NqpGvx62Jy&sig=_aP3q-irm4wBM5ypzLRhZcNCqtg#v=onepage&q&f=false]http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr= ... &q&f=false[/url] [url=http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/2276/CallieWalker2009.pdf?sequence=1#page=14]http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstrea ... =1#page=14[/url] [url=http://www.ajas.info/Editor/manuscript/upload/15_125.pdf]http://www.ajas.info/Editor/manuscript/ ... 15_125.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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